AeroAstro PhD student Lanie McKinney works to help humans explore Mars — and return home. “If we don’t build gas stations on Mars, it will be very difficult to get humans back to Earth,” she says. “We’re going to need some way to produce the propellant on site.”
The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. MIT spinout Atlas Building Composites is working to solve both problems at once: “We’re turning bottles into buildings,” says co-founder A.J. Perez ’13, MNG ’14, PhD ’23.
Exposure to short bursts of a staticky sound known as “pink noise” during sleep can strengthen waves of cerebrospinal fluid, which clear debris from the brain, researchers found. They hope to study whether this process could help people to get more restorative sleep.
Robigo’s engineered microbes fight agricultural pests, reducing the need for chemical pesticides. “Growers are just trying to produce enough food to feed everyone,” Andee Wallace PhD ’20 says. “We’re trying to give them a better choice.”
An MIT class project has spawned an effort to build a new kind of aircraft in Ohio. Electra began as an idea for a hybrid plane that could take off from shorter runways than traditional planes but have more range and speed than all-electric aircraft.
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